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The Busted Ex-Texan: A Western Trilogy

William Henry Harrison Murray

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• TRILOGY - Three short story collections by author W. H. H. Murray are in this Kindle ebook.

Short stories include the tales: The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories ; How Deacon Tubman And Parson Whitney Celebrated New Year's; The Leaf Of Red Rose; The Old Trapper’s Story; A Ride With A Mad Horse In A Freight Car ; The Old Beggar's Dog ; and Who Was He?

Except From The Busted Ex-Texan
..."What a mirror the human face is! Looking into it, how we behold the soul, the accidents that have befallen it and the disappointments it has borne! Are not the faces of men as carved tablets on which we read the records of their lives? The face of childhood is smoothly beautiful, like a white page on which neither with ink of red or black has any pen drawn character.
But, as the years go on, the pen begins to move and the fatal tracery to grow,--that tracery which means and tells so much. And the face of this man,--this waif, so to speak,--this waif that had come to us from the stretch of the prairie, whose southern line is the southern gulf; this stranger, who had come so suddenly to the circle of our light, and so plaintively sought admission to its comfort and its cheer, was a face which one might read at a glance.
Not one in our circle that did not instantly feel that he embodied some overwhelming calamity. A look of sadness, of a mild, continuous sorrow, overspread his face. There was a pitiful expression about the mouth, as if brave determination had withdrawn its lines from it forever. From his eyes a certain mistrustfulness looked forth,--not mistrustfulness of others, but of himself,--as if confidence in his own powers had received an overwhelming shock.
The man's appearance made an instant and unmistakable impression upon the entire company. The ladies--God bless their sweet and sympathetic natures!--were profoundly moved at the pitiful aspect of our guest. Their bosoms thrilled with sympathy for one upon whose devoted head evil fortune had so evidently emptied its quiver. Nor were our less sensitive masculine natures untouched by his forlorn appearance..."

About the Author
American author William Henry Harrison Murray was a clergyman who wrote an influential series about the Adirondacks in New York State. He was born in Connecticut and graduated from Yale before becoming a minister.

Pages: 136

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: August 25, 2015

The Busted Ex-Texan: A Western Trilogy

William Henry Harrison Murray

0/5 ( ratings)

• TRILOGY - Three short story collections by author W. H. H. Murray are in this Kindle ebook.

Short stories include the tales: The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories ; How Deacon Tubman And Parson Whitney Celebrated New Year's; The Leaf Of Red Rose; The Old Trapper’s Story; A Ride With A Mad Horse In A Freight Car ; The Old Beggar's Dog ; and Who Was He?

Except From The Busted Ex-Texan
..."What a mirror the human face is! Looking into it, how we behold the soul, the accidents that have befallen it and the disappointments it has borne! Are not the faces of men as carved tablets on which we read the records of their lives? The face of childhood is smoothly beautiful, like a white page on which neither with ink of red or black has any pen drawn character.
But, as the years go on, the pen begins to move and the fatal tracery to grow,--that tracery which means and tells so much. And the face of this man,--this waif, so to speak,--this waif that had come to us from the stretch of the prairie, whose southern line is the southern gulf; this stranger, who had come so suddenly to the circle of our light, and so plaintively sought admission to its comfort and its cheer, was a face which one might read at a glance.
Not one in our circle that did not instantly feel that he embodied some overwhelming calamity. A look of sadness, of a mild, continuous sorrow, overspread his face. There was a pitiful expression about the mouth, as if brave determination had withdrawn its lines from it forever. From his eyes a certain mistrustfulness looked forth,--not mistrustfulness of others, but of himself,--as if confidence in his own powers had received an overwhelming shock.
The man's appearance made an instant and unmistakable impression upon the entire company. The ladies--God bless their sweet and sympathetic natures!--were profoundly moved at the pitiful aspect of our guest. Their bosoms thrilled with sympathy for one upon whose devoted head evil fortune had so evidently emptied its quiver. Nor were our less sensitive masculine natures untouched by his forlorn appearance..."

About the Author
American author William Henry Harrison Murray was a clergyman who wrote an influential series about the Adirondacks in New York State. He was born in Connecticut and graduated from Yale before becoming a minister.

Pages: 136

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: August 25, 2015

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